- Reports of a loud ‘boom’ in Perth
- No earthquake recorded
A mysterious ‘explosion’ has taken place in Perth, according to social media users.
Internet users in Perth claimed to have felt vibrations and heard a loud noise shortly after 11am AWST on Wednesday.
Perth Weather Live received almost 1,000 responses about the incident and confirmed that no earthquakes had been reported in the area.
“We felt it here in Hamilton Hill. It sounded like something huge hit our roof and we felt a vibration that lasted a fraction of a second,” one woman said.
Another said: ‘I was in Port Kennedy, my whole house shook and I heard bangs.’
It is reported that there have been no ‘explosions’ in the Perth region that involved emergency services.
A woman from south Perth reported hearing a loud ‘bang’ off the coast.
“There was a huge bang and a huge vibration,” she said.
‘We saw other neighbors going out to the balcony to see if there was smoke or anything… People felt it and heard it.
‘I was quite high up and you could see all the way down to the coast, as far as Rockingham, the harbour and Kwinana.
‘It sounded like it was coming from the water and from the shoreline it looked like it was coming from Rottnest Island.
“It was so weird. It was a bang, it lasted a second. It was shaking too. It didn’t feel like an earthquake, it felt like something had exploded, but there was no smoke.”
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